Britain must cancel a huge increase in aid to Pakistan unless the country
tackles astonishing levels of tax avoidance among its wealthy elite,
ministers have been warned.

In a direct challenge to the Government’s decision to send more of the aid
budget to Islamabad, an influential group of MPs said that British taxpayers
were effectively being asked to step in and subsidise huge rates of tax
evasion in the country.

The total amount of aid sent to Pakistan is expected to rise by a further £180
million to almost £450 million a year by 2015 as it becomes the largest